How to get a row or column letter of the current cell in Excel?
Author: SunLast Modified: 2020-06-03
Have you ever tried to get the row or column letter of the current cell in Excel as below screenshot shown? Here, I introduce some formulas to quickly get the row letter or column letter of the active cell.
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None of those listed solve this. What I posted here does, regardless of it be "A" "AA" "AAA"
Note, Column() can be used to point to any number for a column, i.e. Column(13) returns "M", Column(53) returns "BA", Column(712) returns "AAJ" but be sure to update both mentioned instances.
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To get any Column Letter:
=MID(ADDRESS(1,COLUMN()),2,LEN(ADDRESS(1,COLUMN()))-3)
ADDRESS(1,COLUMN()) returns $A$1, $AA$1, $XFD$1, etc. based on lookup position put into the () of column part of equation.
LEN counts characters
MID gathers characters at starting position and count length from there. Start at 2 to eliminate the initial $ and go total LEN - 3 to get rid of ending $1 as well as the starting $ because we shifted our start position.